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Jun 5

President Obama: "AIDS-Free Generation Is Within Reach"

Stigma and silence fuel ignorance, and they contribute to the transmission of HIV/AIDS said the president. Testing, treatment, education and acceptance save lives, along with fighting "the discrimination that halted progress for too long."  The president referred to the millions of lives saved thanks to the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program and to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. "My administration implemented ...
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May 17

LA County moves toward possible millionaire’s tax to fight homelessness

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to pursue a potential ballot measure that wouldtax top-income earners to combat rising homelessness. Supervisors also agreed to conduct an internal audit of how the county spends money on homelessness. In a 3-2 vote, the board directed its top executive and the county’s legislative advocates in Sacramento to pursue a change in ...
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May 10

HUD ALLOCATES $174 MILLION THROUGH NEW HOUSING TRUST FUND

WASHINGTON – For the first time ever, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today allocated nearly $174 million through the nation’s Housing Trust Fund (see list of state allocations below). The Housing Trust Fund is a new affordable housing production program that will complement existing Federal, state and local efforts to increase and preserve the supply of ...
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May 9

Eliminating HIV is possible; UCLA, Danish researchers explain how

Worldwide, about 35 million people are living with HIV. The World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS plan to use an approach called "treatment as prevention" to eliminate the global pandemic, which the WHO says will have occurred when only one person out of 1,000 becomes infected each year. Now, a nearly two-decade analysis by researchers from ...
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May 6

Building long-term housing is great, but what about helping the homeless now?

To the editor: Well-intentioned city and county officials have proposed various long-term solutions to the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles County. But we also need interim solutions, because building housing and obtaining funding for these proposals will take years. In the meantime, our homeless population continues to grow. Why not allow homeless veterans to camp on the Department of Veterans Affairs campus ...
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May 4

L.A. Sees Another Sharp Rise In Homelessness and Outdoor Tents

Homelessness increased in the last year in the city and county of Los Angeles, leaving nearly 47,000 people in the streets and shelters despite an intensive federal push that slashed the ranks of homeless veterans by nearly a third, according to figures released Wednesday by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. Nearly two-thirds of the homeless people tallied countywide, or 28,000, were ...
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Apr 20

Homeless measures take center stage in Mayor Garcetti's 2016 budget proposal

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Wednesday released his proposed budget for the final year of his first term, pushing for significant boosts to anti-homelessness programs as part of a 2% increase in overall spending. The $8.76-billion budget proposal, up from $8.58 billion last year, asks for no radical changes to most areas of city government. It would slightly increase Los ...
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Apr 15

LAHSA Houses 1,500+ Families in 18 Months Via Homeless Family Solutions System

Agency Shows Strong Housing Placements and Retention in Increasingly Tough Housing Market Los Angeles, CA (April 15, 2016) - The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), the City-County agency tasked with addressing homelessness in Los Angeles County, released its second quarter results of the Homeless Family Solutions System (HFSS), a seamless, cooperative system of service delivery for homeless and at-risk families throughout Los Angeles ...
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Apr 11

$28-billion L.A. County budget proposal aims to address homelessness, improve jails

Los Angeles County officials on Monday released a proposed $28.5-billion budget for the next fiscal year -- a plan that would boost overall spending by about 1% but does not spell out how shortfalls in the coroner’s office and some other key programs will be solved. In presenting the budget, county Chief Executive Officer Sachi Hamai said leaders are committed to ...
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Apr 10

National Youth HIV, AIDS Awareness Day Quotes: 10 Inspirational Sayings For 2016 Annual Observance

More than 20 percent of all people diagnosed with HIV in 2014 in the United States were 13-24 years of age. But only one in five sexually active U.S. high school students gets tested for HIV. In all, about 156,300 young people living with HIV are unaware of their infection. National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day on Sunday was created to raise awareness about the impact of HIV/AIDS ...
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